"on stage and died three days later, without regaining consciousness, at Lancaster in Lancashire, on August 5, 1952. Her body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London. In the cemetery courtyard she shares a memorial plaque with music hall star Nellie Wallace. Her repertoire of songs was related to her male-impersonation act, which was often in military attire. They included: Ella Shields Ella Shields (September 27, 1879 – August 5, 1952) was a music hall singer and male-impersonator. Her famous signature song, ""Burlington Bertie from Bow"", a parody of Vesta Tilley's Burlington Bertie, written by her manager and first"
"song-writing husband, William Hargreaves, wrote ""Burlington Bertie from Bow"", a comic ditty about a penniless Londoner who affects the manner of a well-heeled gentleman. It was a parody of an earlier song, simply called Burlington Bertie, written by Harry B. Norris and made famous by Vesta Tilley. Shields sang the song, dressed up in slightly battered top hat and tails, in the role of Burlington Bertie 'himself'. She toured the world in this role, including appearances at Baltimore's now-demolished Maryland Theatre in 1924 and '26. The persona of Bertie haunted the rest of her life and she was known as"
"in New York City. Portia Nelson Portia Nelson (born Betty Mae Nelson, May 27, 1920 – March 6, 2001) was an American popular singer, songwriter, actress, and author. She was best known for her appearances in the most prestigious 1950s cabarets, where she sang an elegant repertoire in a soprano noted for its silvery tone, perfect diction, intimacy, and meticulous attention to words. In 1965 she portrayed the cantankerous Sister Berthe in the film version of ""The Sound of Music""; she also had a minor role as Sarah in the musical ""Doctor Dolittle""; on TV's ""All My Children"" Nelson played"
"Portia Nelson Portia Nelson (born Betty Mae Nelson, May 27, 1920 – March 6, 2001) was an American popular singer, songwriter, actress, and author. She was best known for her appearances in the most prestigious 1950s cabarets, where she sang an elegant repertoire in a soprano noted for its silvery tone, perfect diction, intimacy, and meticulous attention to words. In 1965 she portrayed the cantankerous Sister Berthe in the film version of ""The Sound of Music""; she also had a minor role as Sarah in the musical ""Doctor Dolittle""; on TV's ""All My Children"" Nelson played the long-running role of"
"William Hargreaves William Hargreaves (1880–1941) was an English composer, mainly of songs for the music hall. His most famous composition was ""Burlington Bertie From Bow"" in 1916 but he also wrote ""Delaney's Donkey"", ""I Know Where the Flies Go"", ""PC 49"", ""We All Went Marching Home Again"", ""They Built Piccadilly For Me"" and ""Give My Regards to Leicester Square"". Hargreaves is also sometimes credited with several songs for Billy Williams, including Postcards (1908); and I Must Go Home Tonight (1909). His ""It’s The Old Army Game"" was added to the originally American musical ""Poppy"" when it was performed in London"
"wealthy and foolish, but if you want pluck – Chorus: What price Burlington Bertie, the boy with the Hyde Park drawl, What price Burlington Bertie, the boy with the Bond Street crawl? He'll fight and he'll die like an Englishman. Forgive all his folly we can; Says old John Bull 'I plainly see These Burlington boys are the boys for me!' </poem> Written and composed by Harry B. Norris Burlington Bertie ""Burlington Bertie"" is a music hall song composed by Harry B. Norris in 1900 and notably sung by Vesta Tilley. It concerns an aristocratic young idler who pursues a"
"Jane Lawrence Jane Lawrence Smith (February 3, 1915 – August 5, 2005), born Jane Brotherton, was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York art scene beginning in the 1950s. Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman, Montana and grew up in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Her father was Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning Company. In 1943 she, created the small role of Gertie in ""Oklahoma!"" on Broadway. The same year, she married Tony Smith, an architect who later achieved fame as a minimalist sculptor. Her close friend Tennessee Williams was best man"
"Festival, which he helped establish in 1962. George Britton (musician) George Britton (19 October 1910 - 12 February 2010) was an American singer, actor, and guitarist. A classical bass-baritone, he had an active performing career in operas, concerts, and musicals during the 1930s through the 1960s. As a stage performer he is best known for succeeding Ezio Pinza in the role of Emile de Becque in the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""South Pacific"". He portrayed the role for two years opposite Martha Wright as Nellie Forbush. Britton began performing concerts of folk music in the 1950s, accompanying"
"George Britton (musician) George Britton (19 October 1910 - 12 February 2010) was an American singer, actor, and guitarist. A classical bass-baritone, he had an active performing career in operas, concerts, and musicals during the 1930s through the 1960s. As a stage performer he is best known for succeeding Ezio Pinza in the role of Emile de Becque in the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""South Pacific"". He portrayed the role for two years opposite Martha Wright as Nellie Forbush. Britton began performing concerts of folk music in the 1950s, accompanying himself on the guitar. In 1957 he"
"Sophie Brandt Sophie Brandt born Sophie Barth (July 4, 1876 – February 4, 1946) was an American actress and soprano singer of musical comedy, opera, and waltzes. She was ""gifted with a voice capable of attaining unusually high notes,"" reported one magazine in 1904. She was known in private life as Mrs. William Burlock. She was born in St. Louis and died at Chicago in 1946. Brandt was born on July 4 1876 in St. Louis to Felix Barth and Marie Barth (""née"" Brandt). She had one sister called Elizabeth. As years marched on Brandt started dropping years off of"
"Bernard Wrigley Bernard Wrigley (born 1948 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a singer, actor and comedian. He is sometimes known by the nickname ""The Bolton Bullfrog"". Wrigley's career as a singer and storyteller began in the late 1960s, when a love of folk music led him to perform in folk clubs. Since then he has released over sixteen albums of traditional and original songs, stories and monologues. His main instruments are the guitar and concertina. He began acting around the same time and has made many appearances on stage, most famously in Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"" alongside Mike Harding at"
"35 students to date. William Warfield William Caesar Warfield (22 January 1920 – 26 August 2002), was an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor. One of his earliest professional engagements was in Marc Blitzstein's Broadway opera, Regina. His breakthrough came when he gave his recital debut in New York's Town Hall in 1950. He went on to produce a highly acclaimed album of selections from Porgy and Bess with Leontyne Price in 1963. Warfield was born in West Helena, Arkansas, the oldest of five sons of a Baptist minister. He grew up in Rochester, New York, where his father was"
"Irving Berlin Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin () – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, ""Marie from Sunny Italy"", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and had his first major international hit, ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. It is commonly believed"
"belt out a song. Other notable performers in the original productions were: Fifi D'Orsay as Solange LaFitte, Justine Johnston as Heidi Schiller, Mary McCarty as Stella Deems, Arnold Moss as Dimitri Weismann, Ethel Shutta as Hattie Walker, and Marcie Stringer and Charles Welch as Emily and Theodore Whitman. The show closed on July 1, 1972 after 522 performances and 12 previews. According to ""Variety"", the production was a ""total financial failure, with a cumulative loss of $792,000."" Prince planned to present the musical on the West Coast and then on a national tour. However, the show did not do well"
"Bernie Wayne Bernie Wayne (March 6, 1919 – April 18, 1993) was an American composer who wrote over 1,000 songs and music for commercial jingles. He was best known for ""Blue Velvet,"" which was recorded as a hit by numerous artists, and ""There She Is,"" the song long associated with the Miss America pageant, as well as songs written for Elvis Presley, Broadway musicals and Hollywood productions. He also wrote the tune featured in commercials for Chock full o'Nuts which portrayed it as the ""heavenly coffee"". Wayne was born Bernard Weitzner in 1919 in Paterson, New Jersey. He died at"
"Rutland Barrington Rutland Barrington (15 January 1853 – 31 May 1922) was an English singer, actor, comedian and Edwardian musical comedy star. Best remembered for originating the lyric baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1896, his performing career spanned more than four decades. He also wrote at least a dozen works for the stage. After two years with a comic touring company, Barrington joined Richard D'Oyly Carte's opera company and, over the next two decades, created a number of memorable comic opera roles, including Captain Corcoran in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (1878), the Sergeant of Police in"
"Rutland Barrington Rutland Barrington (15 January 1853 – 31 May 1922) was an English singer, actor, comedian and Edwardian musical comedy star. Best remembered for originating the lyric baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1896, his performing career spanned more than four decades. He also wrote at least a dozen works for the stage. After two years with a comic touring company, Barrington joined Richard D'Oyly Carte's opera company and, over the next two decades, created a number of memorable comic opera roles, including Captain Corcoran in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (1878), the Sergeant of Police in"
"Bertha Lewis Bertha Amy Lewis (12 May 1887 – 8 May 1931) was an English opera singer and actress primarily known for her work as principal contralto in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Lewis was born in Forest Gate, London. She attended St. Angela's High School, Upton and then studied voice at the Royal Academy of Music, gaining an A.R.A.M. qualification. She had made professional appearances on the concert stage but had not acted before she joined D'Oyly Carte at the age of 19 in 1906 as Kate in ""The Pirates of Penzance""."
"Gertie Millar Gertrude ""Gertie"" Ward, Countess of Dudley (née ""Millar"") (21 February 1879 – 25 April 1952) was an English actress and singer of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies under her maiden name, Gertie Millar. Beginning her career at age 13, Millar was a prominent star of musical comedies for two decades. In 1902, she married the composer Lionel Monckton, who wrote the scores of many of her shows and songs that she made famous. She was one of the most prominent West End theatre performers of the early 20th century, starring in"
"Butler May Butler ""String Beans"" May (August 18, 1894 – November 17, 1917) was an American vaudeville performer, singer, pianist and comedian. He has been described as ""the greatest attraction in African-American vaudeville, the first recognizable blues star,"" and was known ""for his streetwise humor, contortive vernacular dancing, and outrageous blues piano playing."" He was said to have been the highest-paid black entertainer in the country at the time of his accidental death at the age of 23, and has been claimed as ""the model for Jelly Roll [Morton], at least as a stage entertainer and perhaps even as a"
"the song, not him, although Brett claimed that he knew nothing about it until the opening night. Shirley performed in several Starlight Musical Theater Company productions, such as ""The Great Waltz"" (1953), a play in which he portrayed Johann ""Schani"" Strauss II. Florence Henderson was featured as the composer's love interest. Bill became exceptionally popular with Sacramento's Music Circus, as reported by such news items as the Sacramento Bee. Older newspaper reports confirm that he apparently received much acclaim for his acting and singing, especially in his portrayals of Johann Strauss Jr. of ""The Great Waltz"", and Lt. Joseph Cable"
"finished at 7:30 pm. Frances (Judy) was signed, and that was the start of her career. Because of circumstance, and contractual arrangements, Burton Lane didn't work with her again for seven years (""Babes on Broadway""), but it was definitely he who discovered her. Burton Lane Burton Levy (February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997) was an American composer and lyricist better known as Burton Lane. His most popular and successful works include ""Finian's Rainbow"" and ""On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"". Burton Lane was born in New York City and studied classical piano as a child. At age"
"a duck of a boy, 'So free' says she, 'with L.s.d., Burlington Bertie's the boy for me.' When pretty young dancers are out of a shop; When sweet little barmaids have just had to hop; When singers cannot with their agents agree; When trim little widows want someone for tea, Who is it that turns up, the lonely girl's friend? Who is it that nightly his club must attend? Who is it drinks brandy and smokes strong cheroots? Who is it that gets into bed with his boots? Chorus: What price Burlington Bertie, the boy with the Hyde Park drawl,"
"Fulton Burley Fulton Burley (June 12, 1922 – May 7, 2007) was an Irish-Canadian performer, most widely known for his work in Disneyland. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Fulton came to the United States in 1943 after a telephone audition landed him the singing lead in Billy Rose's ""Diamond Horseshoe Revue"" on Broadway. He later marveled at his ""Irish"" luck saying, ""The peculiar thing is I was at the Golden Horseshoe for 25 years, and I had started [my professional career] at the Diamond Horseshoe."" At age 7, he performed in church weddings, and by"
"song ""On a Little Bamboo Bridge"" became a hit for Louis Armstrong. Artists who recorded Al Sherman songs include Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallée, Ozzie Nelson, Lawrence Welk, Peggy Lee, Patti Page, Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra among many others. Some of his most memorable songs include songs for major Broadway revues, including the ""Ziegfeld Follies"", ""George White's Scandals"", ""The Passing Show"" and ""Earl Carroll's Vanities"". Beside writing ""Livin' in the Sunlight"" for ""The Big Pond"", Al also wrote for many other films including songs"
"Bertha Lee Pate Bertha Lee Pate, known more commonly as Bertha Lee (June 17, 1902–May 10, 1975) was an American classic female blues singer, active in the 1920s and 1930s. She recorded with, and was the wife of, Charlie Patton. When she was young, Lee's family moved to Lula, Mississippi. Lee met Patton in 1930 and remained his wife until his death in 1934. During this time, she sang on twelve of Patton's recordings, which resulted in the recording of three of her own songs, ""Yellow Bee"", ""Dog Train Blues"", and ""Mind Reader Blues"". Patton accompanied her on guitar on"
"in nightclubs, and in 1942, he appeared in Michael Todd's production of Star and Garter with Bobby Clark and Gypsy Rose Lee. In 1945 he performed his xylophone act in the musical ""Tonight and Every Night"" starring Rita Hayworth. He died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, Hollywood, California, on March 13, 1950 at the age of 58. His wife Millie was at his side. Professor Lamberti Professor Lamberti (born Basil Garwood Lambert, January 9, 1892 – March 13, 1950) was an American vaudeville and burlesque performer active during the early part of the 20th century. He was billed as ""the world's"
"Dutchman"". While he continued to perform into the last years of his life, his performance career significantly slowed after the mid 1980s. He spent the last years of his life in Kure Beach, North Carolina. Robert Mosley Robert Mosley (1927 – April 30, 2002) was an American operatic bass-baritone. Part of the first generation of African-American opera singers to achieve wide success, he performed in numerous opera productions, recitals, and in concerts from the 1950s through the 1990s. In 1957 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He drew particular acclaim for his portrayal of Porgy in George Gershwin's"
"Bill Shirley William Jesse ""Bill"" Shirley (July 6, 1921 – August 27, 1989) was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer. He is perhaps best known as the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Walt Disney's 1959 animated classic ""Sleeping Beauty"" and for dubbing Jeremy Brett's singing voice in the 1964 film version of ""My Fair Lady"". William Shirley was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 6, 1921. His father, Luther James Shirley, was a funeral director for Shirley Brothers Mortuaries. His mother, Inez Shirley (née Baldwin), was a well-known professional"
"1986 in San Francisco, California, aged 54. He was married to Isaurinha Garcia, one of the most popular singers in Brazil. He is the grandfather of Brazilian actor and singer Rickkie. Sources: Billboard Top Pop Hits, Billboard Archives Walter Wanderley Walter Wanderley (born Walter Jose Wanderley Mendonça, 12 May 1932 – 4 September 1986) was a Brazilian organist and pianist, best known for his lounge and bossa nova music and for his instrumental version of the song ""Summer Samba"" which became a worldwide hit. Wanderley was born in Recife, Brazil. Already famous in his native country by the late 1950s,"
"Columbia series, which also includes Ethelbert Nevin's 'My Rosary', C.V. Stanford's 'Father O'Flynn,' Sullivan's 'Thou'rt passing hence, my brother,' and other titles. Santley's publications include the following: Of the volumes of reminiscences, ""Student and Singer"" deals with his career up to circa 1870, and ""Reminiscences of My Life"" includes material for the later period. Santley also composed a number of songs under the pseudonym of Ralph Betterton. Charles Santley Sir Charles Santley (28 February 1834 – 22 September 1922) was an English-born opera and oratorio star with a ""bravura"" technique who became the most eminent English baritone and male concert"
"Bobby Vinton Stanley Robert Vinton, Jr. (born April 16, 1935), known professionally as Bobby Vinton, is an American singer and songwriter. In pop music circles, he became known as ""The Polish Prince"", as his music pays tribute to his Polish heritage. Known for his angelic vocals in love songs, his most popular song, ""Blue Velvet"" (a cover of Tony Bennett's 1951 song), reached No.1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1963, and made No.2 in the UK in 1990. It also served as inspiration for the film of the same name. Vinton is the only child of locally popular bandleader"
"a major city without occasionally singing them. John McCormack sang several of Burleigh's songs in concert, including ""Little Mother of Mine"" (1917), ""Dear Old Pal of Mine"" (1918), ""Under a Blazing Star"" (1918), and ""In the Great Somewhere"" (1919). The popularity of Burleigh's settings contributed to an explosion of popularity for the genre during the 1920s. He also set some poems by Walt Whitman to music, and also published music for piano and violin. Estimates of Burleigh's original musical output range from 200 to 300 songs. In 1914, he was a founding member of the American Society of Composers, Authors"